While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn’t seem like a pontiff to say, “I told you so.”

But maybe he did.

When Pope Leo addressed the College of Cardinals on May 9, the day after his election, he referred to “developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.”

Almost as if to prove the pope’s point — and if an inanimate computer language model run through a batch of electronic components could say, ‘Hold my beer’ — Claude Opus 4, an AI system marketed by developer Anthropic, recently demonstrated some startlingly bad behavior directed at its human creators.

Assigned a scenario to act as a fictional company assistant, Claude gained access to

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